Thread: Newbie question

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  cout<<"hello world!\n\n";
  system("PAUSE");	
  cout<<"yeah babeeh\n\n";
  system("PAUSE");
  char string;
  cout>>"Say something: ";
  cin.getline(string);
  cout<<"\nYou said: "<<string;
  system("PAUSE");
  return 0;
}

why doesn't work?
thanks..

char string; gives you a variable to store ONLY one character
char string [100]; gives you a variable to store 100 characters